HIV Futures

A large national survey of people living with HIV/AIDS in Australia, conducted every two years.

For further information about HIV Futures, go to the HIV Futures website.

Futures 5: an improving picture, but only just

People living with HIV are doing better on treatments and are more likely to be in employment than they were two years ago, but many are still living in poverty and increasingly concerned about the long-term impact of HIV treatments, according to the latest HIV Futures report.

Constructing knowledge

It’s time to bring people living with HIV/AIDS more closely into the social research which seeks to understand their lives, writes JOHN RULE.

On the shoulders of giants

The annual conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine (ASHM) was held in Hobart, Tasmania, from 24-27 August.

Lives under the microscope

 Our lives as positive people are constantly under scrutiny by researchers. The resulting research reports may talk about our quality of life, but do they add to it? JOHN RULE reports on the business of ‘meaning making’.